The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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...are underappreciated.
Sure we like onions, but few of us love them like those lovers of garlic or the chocoholics. I summon the onion to mind, heart and gut, because there may be no more perfect metaphor for the spiritual life. Day by day we peel away the layers of our being. Each layer is a bit smaller and strangely more fragrant. We may never reach the center. But even if we could manage there would be no great reward, only more onion.
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